Amy Winehouse has been in the hospital undergoing tests due to her fainting episode last week, and her father, Mitch, said she is suffering from the early stages of emphysema. "With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up," he told the U.K.'s Sunday Mirror. "The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs, it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her. There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She's got 70 percent lung capacity.
"It's in its early stages, but had it gone on for another month they painted a very vivid picture of her sitting there like an old person with a mask on her face struggling to breathe."
Mitch Winehouse said his daughter has serious health problems, including an irregular heartbeat, but that tests ruled out the possibility of tuberculosis.
"When we got to the hospital a room was ready," he told the paper. "Several doctors came in and checked to make sure she didn't need any emergency treatment. They put her on a drip straight away because she was dehydrated. She said, 'Don't worry about me, dad. I know I've got to stop taking drugs now.'"
The elder Winehouse said Amy had been awake for two straight days prior to her hospitalization. She slept for three days straight after she was admitted.
She is scheduled to perform at Nelson Mandela's 90th birthdays concert in London and at the Glastonbury Festival this month. Her spokesperson said Winehouse plans to perform as long as her doctors give their permission.
"At present she still intends to perform at her two scheduled dates next week," her spokesperson said. "However the decision will be made entirely on the advice of her doctors and in her best interests. Amy has undergone more scans and tests and we are awaiting the verdict of her doctors."
Mitch Winehouse said he believes it would be good for his daughter to perform.
"When she's been inactive work-wise then that's when the problems really start. The doctors have said that medically there isn't any reason why she can't do Glastonbury," he told the Sunday Mirror.
